Peachwave

I love all of the yogurts! My favorite currently being salted caramel. I’m not sure why people are complaining about the sample cups, because it’s not that big a deal and they give you the sample cups instead of babying you.
All of the employees are friendly and you get a $ 2 discount if you are a frequent customer and have had 6+ yogurts before using the discount!

Since moving to Portland this has become my go-​to frozen yogurt place. They have a great variety of flavor choices and flavor mixes, and often have a lot of toppings that other frozen yogurt chains don’t offer. However, whenever I go there they do tend to be out of a few toppings I usually look for (hence the 4 stars instead of 5), such as mangos and crushed waffle cone pieces. Overall, I love this place!

We have a lot of choice for froyo in this area, and Peachwave definitely delivers on consistency and overall quality. They always have a great range of flavors (although i typically always go for the original tart…) The toppings area is always clean (yay!) My favorite part: for a froyo joint, they are pretty nut allergy friendly! Nuts/​flavors with nuts are kept relatively separate and are easy to avoid. Staff is ready to look at ingredients when I ask.

I love bubble tea, and I love convenience of a froyo place that offers bubble tea. However, if a manager doesn’t have the ability to train its employees on how to make them, then it should not be a menu item! We waited an hour for bubble tea, with the employee not knowing how to make one of the options, (found a substitute) and the teas came with chunks of curds or powder in it — blech. I would not go here for bubble teas again. The froyo is alright, but I have had better, too, that tastes less artificial and had less of a chemical aftertaste.

I have a soft spot for this place, as it was the site of many a hangout in my middle and high school years. I’ve always found the staff friendly here, and haven’t had any issues with having to ask for sample cups thanks to the fact that I have a very consistent froyo routine pretty much everywhere I go (plain and some form of fruity flavor, usually mango or pomegranate, topped with fruit), with slight modifications based on the specific location’s offerings.
What really makes Peachwave cool for me is their exploding boba. For those who haven’t heard of these, they’re bobas with liquid inside that gushes out when you bite them open, and they are, in a word, awesome.
With this said, though, I thought that my froyo was a bit warmer than it should have been last time I was in, so it melted more quickly than I was expecting.

I’ve been to a couple of really bad froyo places recently and Peachwave is done right as far as I’m concerned. Place is clean, there are lots of choices of fresh ingredients and froyo and it’s exactly what I was looking for.
I see some reviewers criticized the sampling process, but most of the flavors are pretty standard fare.
I will say Peachwave met my expectations (which is a breathe of fresh air given my recent luck), but I’m not getting to 5 stars because it didn’t exceed my expectations/​blow me away (would require very friendly staff, new/​exotic ingredients/​froyo flavors).

This place gets two stars for cleanliness; it is one of the cleaner yogurt shops I’ve been to. Otherwise, I wouldn’t give them any stars at all. It is a HUGE inconvenience to have to ask for sample cups; and then the unhappy employee has to fill it up for you. I’ve never seen this process and it’s just a waste of everyone’s time. PLEASE change this process, Peach Wave.
The employee manning the desk has always been cold and unfriendly; I’ve been here at least 4 times and that has never changed. If you work in a froyo shop, I would expect you to be bubbly and upbeat. The selection of flavors and toppings is nothing special, but adequate enough for most people’s tastes.
Overall, this place is worth a stop in if you’ve never had frozen yogurt. But I wouldn’t come here if you are expecting a pleasant, welcoming froyo experience.

Why is it necessary to ask for a sample cup before sampling their frozen concoctions?
Well…I guess they might not want people coming in and trying a bunch of samples and leaving. Fine, ok, it’s kind of annoying that I have to wait until the single employee in the place is done ringing up a bunch of customers to try a sample. Fine… I’ll wait.
Waiting.
Waiting.
Waiting.
Finally…ready to taste some frozen yogurt:
«Could I have a sample cup please?»
–Employee steps out from behind the counter.-
«Sure, I’ll come get it for you. Which flavor would you like to try?»
«Oh…we can’t just sample it ourselves?»
–Meanwhile more customers enter the line with no one to ring them up.-
«No, I have to do it for you.»
Um…ok…nevermind then.
At this point my fiancé decides he doesn’t want to support a business that can’t treat their customers as adults. I don’t want to support them either, but I’m really craving some original tart with fresh fruit. I purchase some. The employee asks if I’d like a punch card.
«No thanks, we won’t be needing one.»
I actually felt badly for the employee, who seemed to be tasked to serve everyone samples and ring people up and restock the topping and clean things, all while dealing with explaining the sampling policy to people like us.
So, we leave and I taste the frozen yogurt, knowing that this would have to be the best frozen yogurt I’ve ever had to even consider coming back and supporting these business practices. It’s not. In fact, it’s not even that great. The fruit was mostly fresh, but conventional. The yogurt was too creamy and too sweet, not the tartness I was looking for.
Nectar’s frozen yogurt is SO much better. They let you try as much as you like there, which always makes me purchase multiple flavors and I end up spending much more than I spent on my measly amount I purchased from Peachwave during this trip.
I understand there are concerns to letting customers dispense their own samples, but somehow it seems that most successful frozen yogurt places in the Portland area have overcome those concerns and allow customers to try what they like.
Bottom line: It’s their business and they can choose to run it how they’d like, but I can also chose to not give them mine.

Love DIY places, frozen yogurt being my favorite of that type of restaurant. Peachwave is consistently delicious, with a variety of tasty flavors that rotate so you can’t get bored. Nice topping bar, average prices, plenty of seating and parking.

We went here after visiting Rose City Ceramics, as it is literally a few feet away. Having been a huge fan of yogurt extreme in corvallis, it was a bit odd. The yogurts all have the same colors (Minus Chocolate, but Nutella was the same color as the vanilla), and the coconut had a funny or sour taste.
The no serving cups was a bit odd, I felt like I was following this poor girl around while she had a line build up at the cash register. It is fun for a quick jot over, but I would not go out of my way to go here.

This is my favorite place to grab frozen yogurt. All of their flavors are yummy and creamy. It is also one of the cheapest around too (39 cents/​oz)! I always judge a fro-​yo place first on the quality of their tart yogurt, and this place has some of the best around! Lots of great toppings are well: fruit, chocolate, candy, and sauces.
The only annoying thing is that someone has to give you your samples, you can’t do it yourself, which gets annoying when it’s busy and the employees are ringing people up.
Overall: great, quality frozen yogurt.

Good froyo, really creamy compared to other froyo places I’ve been. Not as many toppings as some other places but good flavors. Melts really fast!

MEH. nothing special. Self serve frozen yogurt. Yogurt tasted more like frozen cream then actual frozen yogurt. fruit looked fresh when I went (early afternoon) but it was nothing to write home about.
won’t be back.

Flavors taste very artificial. I wonder if it’s because everything is low fat and/​or non fat there.
Service wise, they wouldn’t even give us sample cups. The guy at the register, came out and attempted to serve us samples. This place was pretty crappy. I will never go back.

I recently went here less than a week ago and so I had to change my review. It is garbage. There were fruit flies all over the toppings. I literally left with yogurt and nuts in my cup.
So sad! Idk what happened or if it was just the girl that was working there. She definitely didn’t look happy and the appearance of the fruits and toppings in general showed that. The fruits looked like they had been sitting there all day without being changed out. They were soggy and just gross!

For only 36 cents and ounce it is pretty cheap for being in a strip mall!
The place was average on spacing, not to small (I’ve been to some where they literally only have two tables for two), yet not insanely huge.
I liked their selection, but the froyo is a bit runny… at least some flavors werent as solid as others…
Regardless, the place is clean, decent amount of options, and the price is right.

Yummy goodness in a cup! You can’t go wrong with frozen yogurt. Plus, they have so many varities. My personal favorite is salted caramel mixed with their coffee fro-​yo. Too good. The place is super clean, no bathrooms, but fear not there are restrooms located within a hop, skip, and a jump of the complex. They do not have sample cups out for the public, so you may need to ask one of the employees and they’ll get a sample of any flavor you’d like for you.

This is my go to yogurt spot in Beaverton. There were many summer days in a row where I’d walk through those doors in the afternoon without shame. It’s clean and has good service. There is always a good variety of flavors and toppings. The seating area is cute as well.

Peachwave is a nice and cute froyo place in Cedar Hills Crossing mall. Their froyo is $.36 per oz, which is a lot cheaper than most froyo places (normally $.44). I walked in and asked for sample cups, but the server ended up sampling for me. I was a little uncomfortable that I wasn’t able to sample by myself. Usually froyo places give you sample cups or set them out for you, so I’m used to sample by myself, but ummm it wasn’t that big of a deal.
I tried couple of their flavors and I think their froyo is creamer than what I have tried at other places. They didn’t have any sorbet flavors when I was there, and even the fruity flavors (e.g. mango) are creamy. I love any pistachio froyo but I didn’t care for theirs. Their froyo was creamy and not cold enough so it was a little runny.
Peachwave won’t be on my top list for froyo but I would come back when I watch movies at cinemark.

Hidden frozen yogurt place inside of Cedar Hills mall area. I never heard or seen this place until I stepped inside the mall to go to the movie theater on the other side of the building. Anyway, what a surprise this place was! The number of flavors served was little lacking but the taste of the yogurt was not lacking at all. Plently of seating area and even had a fairly huge screen TV for me to watch some ESPN while enjoying my yogurt! Toppings were fresh and weren’t much better than the toppings from other frozen yogurt places I have been to but at least they weren’t terrible.
I know where to go to on a hot summer day nearby Cedar Hills now.

Peachwave, I wanted to fall in love with you. You are so close to work and super convenient and I was very excited to have some fro-​yo. However you fail.
1. It is highly unnecessary not to mention uncomfortable to follow grown adults around to fill their sample cups. Every other fro-​yo place gives you a sample cup or two and let’s your figure it out. Don’t insult me, I’m a paying customer, I have no intention of using the same cup twice or eating my fill from a sample cup.
2. I tried 2 flavors, coconut and pumpkin pie via supervised sample cup. Both were so sickening sweet that I can no desire to finish the small sample that was rationed out to me. FInaly, I settled on peanut butter because my friend had tried it and liked it and because how could you screw up peanut butter! Also, I didn’t want to dare ask for another sample. Peanut Butter was good, that is all.
Your topping bar was good, nothing super exciting offered but you had the basics. This relationship was just not meant to be, I’m sorry it’s you, not me.

I’m told that frozen yogurt is healthier than ice cream. That’s why I have no problems bringing my cup to the register and weighing in at 3 pounds. Seriously, this stuff tastes just as good as ice cream! My favorite flavors are cupcake, cheesecake, and taro. I think the fresh fruits pair best with the yogurts. The blackberry is hands down my favorite topping. Be sure to also get a rewards card. I’ve easily cashed in like 3 times. Come to Peachwave, get some yogurt, then mosey down the mall to Powell’s bookstore.

BOOM! WINNING.
After prying myself away from my nearby Yogurt Munch I decided to venture out to Peachwave after hearing some good things about it. Although Yogurt Munch is near where I live… and it tastes great… it’s not the cleanest set up and much of their toppings come from the nearby WinCo. So I found myself at Peachwave last night and was pleasently surprised.
PROS: Everything! They had 16… yes 16 flavors to choose from and the majority were fat free. Even the Vanilla was fat free unlike some of the other fo yo places. They also had a waffle bowl option which I gladly accepted. The toppings… there were plenty… so many fresh fruit options, candies, and cereal… I do love me some captain crunch and fruity pebbles. I filled my bowl to the brim just about and it still only cost me $ 3.50. Success.
CONS: The waffle bowl wasn’t super crispy like normal… but I could have just pulled the bad one out of the batch. The Vanilla I wasn’t too impressed with… it tasted a bit too ordinary and not very flavorful.
LOVED their Dole Pineapple and Coconut flavors. The Coconut could have used a bit more flavoring if you ask me. The raspberry was good but wished it was a bit more sour. The mango flavor was good as well. I will most definitely be back — it’s worth the drive!